BUFFALO WOMAN. 73 
43. BUFFALO WOMAN.* 
In a village there lived a cannibal at that time and the people called 
him Snow-Bird-with-White-Wings. He had a handsome son, who 
would not marry any of his own tribe. The father named his son 
Braveness because he was very brave in hunting. Whenever he went 
out to hunt he brought home many kinds of game that he had killed. 
Many of the young girls tried to win him as a husband, but Braveness 
would pay no attention to any of them. One night he decided to go 
hunting the next day. Early the next morning he started out toward 
the west. While he was going along looking and watching for wild 
animals he saw some one sitting ahead of him under a small elm tree. 
He approached the person and saw that it was a woman. She called 
him to come where she was, and he obeyed and saw that she was very 
beautiful and very young. She told him that she knew he was coming 
there and so she had come to meet him. He listened eagerly to hear 
what she had to say. She asked him if she could stay with him, and 
if he would take her to his home and let her become his wife. He 
told her that he would take her to his home, but that she must ask his 
parents if she could stay with him. They started for his home at once, 
and when they arrived the girl asked the old people to let her become 
the young man’s wife, and they consented. After that the young man 
had some one to love and they lived happily for a long time; but one 
time while they were alone she asked him if he would do whatever she 
said, and he finally said that he would. She asked him to go with her 
to her home and told him that they would return again some day. 
A few days after, they started to her homeand she led the way. After 
they had gone a long way they came to high hills, and all at once she 
stopped and turned around and looked at her husband and said: ‘‘ You 
have promised me that you will do anything that I say.’’ ‘‘ Yes,’’ said 
he. ‘‘ Well,’’ said she, ‘‘my home is on the other side of this large 
hill which is before us. I will tell you when we get to my mother. I 
know there will be many people coming there to see who you are, and 
they will bother you and try to get you angry, but do not get angry at 
any of them. The young men willtry to kill youinsome way. Listen 
to what I am about to tell you. I was just like you when I met you. 
I knew you, but you did not know me. I was the one who made you 
come there to find me. I have said that some of the young men will 
try to get you angry, and when they get you angry at them one of 
them will jump on you, and when they see that you are going to try to 
* Told by White-Bread. 
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